Powering the South with “White Coal”
In October of 1867 naturalist John Muir was in the middle of a thousand-mile walk through the South when he met a cotton planter, Mr. Cameron, on his farm outside of Augusta, Georgia. He predicted that “the time is coming, though we may not live to see it, when that mysterious power or force, used now only for telegraphy, will eventually supply the power for running railroad trains and steamships, for lighting, and, in a word, electricity will do all the work of the world.”
The Fall and Rise of Energy Conservation Codes
William D. Bryan Energy conservation codes are making a comeback. Commercial and residential buildings are energy hogs that consume more than 40% of all energy produced in the United States. […]
A Service Heart
SEEA Staff Danny Kilpatrick’s childhood home in rural Mississippi was frequently warmed by “oven-heat.” He knows first-hand the fear and worry low-income households feel when their monthly utility bills are […]